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Michal Hocko committed 8addc2d00fe
mm: do not warn on offline nodes unless the specific node is explicitly requested
Oscar has noticed that we splat
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 64 at ./include/linux/gfp.h:467 vmemmap_alloc_block+0x4e/0xc9
[...]
CPU: 0 PID: 64 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Tainted: G W E 4.17.0-rc5-next-20180517-1-default+ #66
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn
Call Trace:
vmemmap_populate+0xf2/0x2ae
sparse_mem_map_populate+0x28/0x35
sparse_add_one_section+0x4c/0x187
__add_pages+0xe7/0x1a0
add_pages+0x16/0x70
add_memory_resource+0xa3/0x1d0
add_memory+0xe4/0x110
acpi_memory_device_add+0x134/0x2e0
acpi_bus_attach+0xd9/0x190
acpi_bus_scan+0x37/0x70
acpi_device_hotplug+0x389/0x4e0
acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1a/0x30
process_one_work+0x146/0x340
worker_thread+0x47/0x3e0
kthread+0xf5/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
when adding memory to a node that is currently offline.
The VM_WARN_ON is just too loud without a good reason. In this
particular case we are doing
alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN, order)
so we do not insist on allocating from the given node (it is more a
hint) so we can fall back to any other populated node and moreover we
explicitly ask to not warn for the allocation failure.
Soften the warning only to cases when somebody asks for the given node
explicitly by __GFP_THISNODE.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180523125555.30039-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
Tested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>